Objects are the fundamental entities stored in Amazon S3. You must explicitly grant
others
permissions to access your objects. Each object has data,
a key, and metadata.
The object key (or key name) uniquely identifies the object in a bucket.
Amazon S3 maintains a set of system and user metadata for each object and processes
the system
metadata as needed for storage management.
Amazon S3 has a flat structure instead of a hierarchy like you might see in a file
system.
However, the console supports the folder concept as a means of grouping objects, using
a
shared name prefix for objects in the same folder.
Use this page to see all the objects in a bucket or folder, create a folder, or upload
an object. You can open, download,
delete, and copy the URL for selected objects. You can also perform object actions
like calculate size, copy, restore, edit, and query with S3 Select.
Was this content helpful?